Rick Lang
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[Andrew Richards] “Multi-clip is coming, and will probably use some variation on the two-up look you get during Trim operations.”
That’s what I was thinking but it will offer more than two views through some selection and navigation method as you go from camera 1 to camera 2 to camera 3 etc. Maybe some thumbnails so you can see the current contents of several cameras at the same timecode value rather than the relatively blind selection method used for auditions that must get awkward after two or three cameras.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Did you transcode it outside FCP X from H.264 or did you transcode it as part of the Import into FCP X or transcode it some time after you had completed the Import?
If it says it’s H.264 in the Inspector, what happens when you select a clip and try to transcode it (again)? Does it then tell you the code is already ProRes? If the answer is “yes”, that’s certainly a strange bug although perhaps there’s some hidden metadata that retains the original codec.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Boris, I wonder if the Consolidate Project Media will actually do the trick since it can be used in your situation where you have already used clips in the project. If you’re lucky, instead of saying it can’t find the media, I hope it pops up the Finder for you to point to the media! Let us know if it works…
https://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0/#verc1fad5d0
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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But your experience is a benefit to others as I think at least at this time we understand if you are going to try other NLEs, you want to work with a copy of the media rather than anything that FCP X has touched.
I don’t know how FCP X is tracking the media using the metadata but it’s not based on Finder’s files. It may well be recording when it last touched the media file or when it last updated the media file and if it finds a later date than what it has stored in its relational database, it considers it offline. After all it has no way of knowing if important content has changed or not unless the timestamps are a match.
You might provide feedback to Apple that the Event is not connecting the clips as you would have expected; just mention the other details here re FCP 7 bin and Premiere Pro in case it helps them resolve the issue if it is a bug. Hopefully a future update will include the ability manually to reconnect media as their other software allows.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Craig, interesting post from August 1997 when Apple was in dire straits. It seems over time with the mellowing of Bill Gates (marriage was good for him), he has a lot of true admiration for Steve Jobs. I remember watching the two of them together the last time (I think) on WSJ All Things D and you could feel the love from Bill. That would not happen if Eric and Steve shared the stage (as understated as I can say that).
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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[Boris Jansch] “If I drag or import the media clips back into the event they apear next to the offline clips but I’m not sure what to do next.”
Not what i expected. May be a bug if the actual media files have not been updated by Premiere Pro and the Event is online but it thinks the contents are offline. Did you check the last modified date on the files in the FCP 7 bin?
Presumably you did not copy the media when you imported it so the media is still in the FCP 7 bin. So now the problem is how to remove those pesky offline references.
[Boris Jansch] “Should I delete the offline clips in the hope that the reimported versions will then link to the offline clips in the Project?”
By deleting you mean to Move to the Trash. I wouldn’t do that without a backup using the Finder of the related content in the FCP 7 bin. If it’s backed up, you might try one only to see if the linked files are actually physically removed from the FCP 7 bin. Considering it’s telling you it’s offline, it might not do anything as it thinks it can’t access the media. Too bad there does not seem to be a way to reconnect your media—you could easily do that in Final Cut Express HD!
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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As Noah suggests, you should also be able to Import Files and point to the media and it will re-establish the links without actually physically moving anything. Dragging is quick but I feel safer using the menus.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Using the Finder, can you examine the Event folder and look at the last modified date to see if anything else has changed? If so, that may be why FCP X is not recognizing it. Look at the last modified date on the actual folder too. Finder’s Get Info will tell you that.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Not going to happen in our lifetime due to the righteous animosity generated by Google co-opting everything they could take from Apple while their crafty fox Eric sat in Apple’s hen house… but when it happens, it will be called AppGoo.
However brilliant one of the leading business leaders is, he was sadly naïve and too trusting. BODs should not include leaders from your broad business sector; if your business is technology, have someone from a hand-made candy store sit on the BOD. Apologies for the irrelevant remarks in this forum.
8^)
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Tom, Craig, and others comments have eloquently answered the questions you asked me earlier.
Just remember though, an Event is not limited to the media of one Project. You could (but who in their right mind would) put your lifetime’s video media in one Event and produce hundreds of Projects, including James Cameron’s next opus, using the same default Event folder. At the other extreme, as Tom mentioned, your Project could be associated with only one Event and all your unique projects would have corresponding unique event folders. But you may not stick to that method if you don’t want that. In reality, you’ll likely use a few Event folders (at least one unique and others with shared media) for each project. After a while, it’ll all be second nature and you’ll whiz around all your events as source material for your current project.
If this sounds chaotic, as was mentioned earlier, when you SAVE the project by using DUPLICATE for a snapshot in time, you can chose to save only the project edit information (small amount of information) or the project with the subset of clips used by the project timeline or the project with the Event media used in the project. Hope I have that right…
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB